Charlie Overton

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Seizing the means of deduction since 1985.
Nonprofit #MediaRelations by day.
#abolition #comms #queer #philly all the time.

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If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:

At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1604866859018473474

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

NPR
Should I be concerned that I asked #ChatGPT to tell me a story about an #AI chatbot that takes over the world and in the story it created the AI is the protagonist? Named Eva???
Is it just me or is the “rarely” not very reassuring here… #journalism #badtakes #robots #killerrobots #defundthepolice
#BadTakes from today’s #NYTimes. #Biden sided with big business over workers and public health. #railroadworkers deserve #sickdays and #unions deserve respect. #railroadstrike #journalism
More #Journalism #BadTakes from the #WashingtonPost. I’m pretty sure a racist police state is not going to lead to #decarceration. We need investment in our communities. #defundthepolice

As a general rule I never boost #FoxNews but this piece had me LOLing so hard. She was exposed to women with short hair! And “history with race, history with gender”! Thank the Goddex for all those hardworking anti-woke deprogrammers out there…

#journalism #BadTakes

In today’s #journalism #BadTakes, #WashingtonPost columnist #MeganMcArdle confidently asserts that conservative commentators getting blamed for things is *almost* as bad as mass shootings…
So happy to see the Youth Art and Self Empowerment Project featured on #PBSnews! No kid should ever be charged as an adult or held in an adult jail. #FreeOurYouth #CareNotControl #Philly #PassSB1240 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/advocates-push-to-end-the-automatic-charging-of-juveniles-as-adults-in-certain-crimes
Advocates push to end the automatic charging of juveniles as adults in certain crimes

In some states, juveniles are automatically charged in adult court for certain serious crimes. It's a practice known as direct file. In Pennsylvania, there is a push to change that rule to prevent children from ending up with adult records. William Brangham reports for our series, Searching for Justice. A warning: this report contains descriptions of self-harm.

PBS NewsHour
I keep seeing ppl online complaining about #mastodon being confusing. But I’m technically a #millennial and I have literally no idea what most #TikTok or #YouTube content is about. Like, it was east to sign up but then I have to feel bad that I still don’t understand what #minecraft or @charlideamilio is. & on #twitter I feel bad for only having approx 2 followers. Over here everyone is the awkward new kid and no one is the evil #CorporateOverlord